I went to a local Italian restaurant Wednesday afternoon with one of my friends. I did not tell him anything as instructed. I order Lobster Ravioli for my meal. We had a salad first with some bread and butter. Only time that I used silverware was to butter my bread. I waited for my friend to start eating that is when I dug into the salad. Astonishing to me he did not say a word or as anybody else. When my meal came I really played it up, I held the ravioli’s over my head every time I took one. That is when people in the restaurant started take notice. My friend still did not say a word about it, he stopped eating and looked at me and smiled. Then went back to eating. I was wondering why he was not saying a word yet. This poor couple next to use had a young kid with them which he was just kept smiling at me. …show more content…
The father got and went to talk with someone because soon after the waitress came over inquired if I needed any silverware. I said no thank you and she went off and still brought me a new set of silverware even though I had a set in front of me. An old couple that I did not see at first brought me some napkins and asked me how my meal was. I said that it was outstanding. Then they went out of the restaurant. The couple with young kid was getting more upset with time due to the kid would not stop staring. The kid was just having a great time watching me. By this time I believe the restaurant manager came over with another set of silverware and asked how was everything today. All I said again that it was very good. He walked off with a big smile but did say a word to me about how I was eating. There were three other tables with customer at them but they did not seem to care one way or the other. I did see a few smiles but that was
and asks him if he needs to use the restroom. He says yes and is very
David Foster Wallace, and award winning novelist, student of Harvard University, essayist, and professor, is the author of “Consider the Lobster,” which is an essay that was posted in Gourmet Magazine in 2004. This essay observes the yearly Maine Lobster Festival and explains how it can and possibly is a violation of animal rights, but more specifically , lobster rights. The article has a very broad audience, which can include animal right activists, gourmet food eaters, lobster hunters, chefs, scientists, tourists who want to know about the festival, magazine readers, and even people who eat food. This is because of the fact that all of these people tie in together with eating or cooking lobster, which is the main idea of the annual festival. The class can be lower or middle class, for the people who catch and cook lobster, as well as upper class for the scientists and gourmet eaters who may eat lobster daily without knowing how they are killed. As Wallace goes more in depth with his thoughts and findings, he grasps the readers attention by mostly using footnotes, pathos, and makes the readers think about the questions he asks order to keep them informed and thinking to help process his thoughts about the Maine Lobster festival, lobster killing, and animal rights as a whole.
I sit waiting in my roommates’ apartment here in Canton—I live there as well. I am strapped for cash waiting on my care box (a box full of food and goodies) and an envelope full of cash from my parents. I’m a college student—and I depend on parents for my money and everything else—well for the most part. So I don’t want to eat a lot of my roommates’ food because he is already allowing me to stay here pretty much free of charge although I do pay. I look through my last box of goodies to see if I could find anything. I found some sardines. If you know anything about sardines you know they have this stench that is unbearable and in most cases you will have to mop the entire house with a huge amount of bleach to eradicate the smell. And also they are usually a cuisine of the poor class because of their cheapness. So I eat. Also Marcus eats. He is eating a huge steak—a steak from Texas road house—a restaurant with somewhat authentic Texas food—I say somewhat because I’m not exactly sure what authentic Texans eat— he received the steak free of charge because of Veterans day. Marcus of course offers me a piece. I delightfully reject his offer. And he finally goes into this whole spiel on how I expect him to feel when he is eating steak and I have sardines for dinner. The first thing I think about is—the amount of money my parents are sending is probably more than what he makes in a six month period of time—but I always seem to blow it off quickly on fast-food and whatever else. Even though my family is well off, I still gladly ate a piece of the steak in which I did want a piece but I did not want him to know that I wanted a piece. The catcher and the rye express this same social class and also it dares to overturn them. When H...
While this invitation produced anxiety for every person that attended this meal, the toll that it took on my nephew was rather difficult to watch. His father chose to attend the day before Thanksgiving; but a half-hour before the scheduled 2 p.m. time for dinner, he let his son know that his girlfriend and her children had decided to come as well. While the adults scrambled to add additional seating, my nephew excitedly stood outside on the porch anticipating his guests’ arrival. An hour later, this little boy dejectedly wondered whether his father had changed his mind. When his guests finally arrived, we all ate an awkward, cold dinner, and my ex-brother-in-law whisked them all (including my nephew) away to his family’s Thanksgiving meal, which meant that my disappointed nephew never got to share the chocolate pie that he had helped make.
Plato's allegory of the cave depicted people that are chained to a bench facing the wall watching the shadow reflected from the fire behind them. They are unable to escape the cave to venture outside to bask in the sun. These people spent their whole lives watching the shadows, believing that the shadow is the truth and only truth. One day, a person managed to escape the chain and ventured outside the cave. He experienced new and enlighten views and ideas about the world. He then returned to the cave to spread the knowledge he gained, but his peers rejected him and refused to listen. They are resistant to all changes or different point of views that are introduced to them. In “Consider the Lobster”, David Foster Wallace poses the morality questions of, it is right to eat lobsters? What allow the people who eats lobster to forget about the whole moral issue? Finally, what conflicting views regarding animal consumption are represented.
In his essay, Wallace does not take a clear stance on whether he does or doesn’t support eating lobsters. But from context clues, I believe that he does or has partaken in eating lobster because he says that he believes that “animals are less morally important than human beings” (470). And on the same page, he states that “I like to eat certain kinds of animals and want to be able to keep doing it”. Another context clue that has led me to conclude this is he states on page 466 “It is, at any rate, uncomfortable for me, and just about everyone…. My own main way of dealing with this conflict has been to avoid thinking about the whole unpleasant thing.” (Wallace). He’s saying
It only took about a minute to see the reaction from some of the kids at my table. One of my friends told me to shut my mouth and the rest of the table started laughing. I stuck to my plan until another one of my friends told me to, “eat normally or go eat somewhere else”. Everyone’s face went from looking weirdly at me to giving me a straight stare. I got the observation I needed so I explained to them what was going on and finished my meal in peace.
During a meal with her grandma and her friend, she tells her grandma that she wants to learn how to cook. Her grandma, happy and excited, goes to the supermarket with Yasaman to pick out vegetables and ingredients for their dishes. When they go to pay, the cashier is rude to Yasaman’s grandma, thinking that she does not understand English. In addition, the woman in line behind them looks irritated and in a hurry. Yasaman apologizes to the woman and pays for her groceries.
The little girl put at least five food items in her mother's cart while she was not looking. The mother and the child continued to walk through out the store and shop, the mother then went to the children aisle to get the little girl some baby lotion and a
Eating out at a fancy restaurant is a luxury for some people. For a restaurant to qualify as “fancy”, it must be clean, have the best furnishings, best waitresses, multiple food selections, and is usually a little pricy. Higher class individuals are the ones who usually eat at these restaurants. Sometimes a middle class person will go out as a treat. For example, Red Lobster is considered a fancy restaurant.
I made it to Big Lots, where Jonathan works, and I forced him to come outside and look at my car. Then we sat and talked for a while and I bragged about how I was going to my grandma’s house to eat a good home-cooked meal, while he would be forced to eat fast food again. When I left Big Lots, I still had a little time before church let out, so I drove back to Gray to the Dollar Store for some supplies for a Spanish class project I was doing that week. Finally I pulled into my grandparents’ driveway, and I noticed the door was closed. I thought this was unusual because I knew my grandpa was home, but I had forgotten a school fundraiser form for my aunts to look at, so I turned around and drove back home to Jonesborough. While driving home my friend Rachel and her mother were behind me, they followed me all the way to my house. I thought it was some kind of joke, but when we pulled into my driveway, Rachel yelled, “Get in the car! They had to take your grandma to the hospital.”
Martyn’s entrance turned heads as the two walked into the crowded restaurant. A glance in their direction before the diners quickly returned their attention back to the plates in front of them. As if they were not interested.
I cut this older couple in line. They stared at me for a while but did not say anything to me and let me ordered my food. The cashier looked shocked but Chick-Fil-A customer service is very impeccable, so she did not say anything. The second time I cut the line was at a bar on St. Patrick’s Day.
I enter an exquisite room welcomed by a benevolent host. I glance around and see dining tables strategically set as if the queen were to be expected. White flowers with silver sparkles adorn the tables to add a final touch. The lights are dimmed low and classical music plays in the background to create a placid atmosphere. A savory aroma fills the room making me crave the chef’s fine platter. The host leads my party to a table and offers us drinks. As we wait for dinner to begin, murmurs fill the room with general conversation.
One beautiful day that summer, I was playing outside with my friends when my mom called for me to come home. I did not want to abandon my guard post at the neighbor's tree house so I decided to disregard her order. I figured that my parents would understand my delima and wouldn't mind if I stayed out for another two or three hours. Unfortunately, they had neglected to inform me that my grandparents had driven in from North Carolina, and we were supposed to go out for a nice dinner. When I finally returned, my father was furious. I had kept them from going to dinner, and he was simply not happy with me. "Go up to your room and don't even think about coming downstairs until I talk to you."